A CNN News Editor Was Fired for Plagiarism

On Friday, CNN announced that it had fired one of its news editors for "multiple instances of plagiarism" in at least 50 articles on the news organization's site. Marie-Louise Gumuchian covered international news for CNN, including recent stories on the Ukraine crisis. She worked out of CNN's London bureau.

In an Editor's Note, CNN explained how they discovered the plagiarism:

An unpublished story flagged last week during our editing process led to an internal investigation that uncovered other examples in about 50 published stories, and our investigation is ongoing.

We've terminated Gumuchian's employment with CNN, and have removed the instances of plagiarism found in her pieces. In some cases, we've chosen to delete an entire article.

CNN, along with Time Magazine, briefly suspended Fareed Zakaria following allegations that he plagiarized a New Yorker column in 2012. Eventually, the news organizations both cleared Zakaira following investigations into the charge, as the Huffington Post reported.